Leigh Dale

There is a burgeoning critical literature of higher education which comments on the cultural changes associated with ‘research quality measurement’. This essay is an introduction…

Telling Tales is a collection of nearly ninety short essays, chock full of interesting nuggets and quirky asides, the writing often brisk and entertaining. But…

Busy trying to understand how literary narratives might be read, and how to teach the reading of literature, academics have spent little time writing about…

This is a fascinating subject for a biography. Thomas Browne was author of one of the best-known Australian novels of the nineteenth century, Robbery under…

Editor’s note: These three articles “are meant to stimulate further debate on the current state and future direction of studies in Australian literature.”

The publication of two essays on 'the state of the discipline' (to borrow a title from the ADE Bulletin) is not a response to…

The relatively early novel A Kindness Cup, which focuses on the massacre of a group of Aborigines and the efforts made to forget and…

It's a long time since I read a book by torch-light, but Mark Davis's Gangland drove me to just such lengths the first time I…

WALTER Murdoch, Professor of English at the University of Western Australia for thirty years and once Australia's best known essayist, has been typecast as a…